Becky Vevea
Bureau Chief at Chalkbeat Chicago
Chicago Bureau Chief @chalkbeat @ChalkbeatCHI Past: @WBEZpolitics @WBEZeducation @chicagonewscoop @journalsentinel. Tips? [email protected]
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chalkbeat.org | Jason Gonzales |Hannah Dellinger |Ann Schimke |Becky Vevea
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. Former U.S. Department of Education employees and state education leaders warned Tuesday that cuts to the federal agency will likely cause disruptions to Colorado’s education system and student learning. The cuts already are impacting students with disabilities.
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chalkbeat.org | Hannah Dellinger |Ann Schimke |Becky Vevea |Jessie Gomez
Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. Amid a bipartisan push to improve school safety and students’ mental health, Republican lawmakers have put forward a package of bills that aims to create a comprehensive “school-community mental health system” and put additional crisis teams in schools.
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chalkbeat.org | Ann Schimke |Becky Vevea |Jessie Gomez |Samantha Smylie
Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. Two of Colorado’s largest school districts will start universal dyslexia screening programs next school year, joining about a dozen other districts across the state that already look for signs of the learning disability in young students.
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chalkbeat.org | Becky Vevea |Jessie Gomez |Samantha Smylie |Michael Elsen-Rooney
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. After threatening to allow nearly $200 million in early childhood spending to expire, Mayor Eric Adams announced plans Wednesday to keep most of it in the budget for next year and beyond.
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chalkbeat.org | Becky Vevea
How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask great educators how they approach their jobs. Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools. Math teacher Victor Hurtado knows what it’s like to enter high school as a recently arrived immigrant.
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